Now, if thy mind's eye pass from light to light, Upon my praises following, of the eighth Thy thirst is next.
Few foreigners have been found to acquiesce in the undiluted panegyric of those Castilians who pronounce it the eighth wonder of the world.
On the twenty-eighth of October Don John received advices of a final edict of Philip, commanding that all the Moriscoes in the kingdom of Granada should be at once removed into the interior of the country.
Spanheim observes, that we have here an instance of the Attic quantity of use-money, which was the eighth part of the original sum, or 12 per cent.
The reader is here to note, that this eighth section is entirely wanting in the old Latin version, as Spanheim truly observes; nor is there any other reason for it, I suppose, than the great difficulty of an exact translation.
And now it was that Cumanus came as successor to Tiberius Alexander; as also that Herod, brother of Agrippa the great king, departed this life, in the eighth year of the reign of Claudius Caesar.
Nehemiah came with his commission in the twenty-fifth of Xerxes, that the walls were two years and four months in building, and that they were finished on the twenty-eighth of Xerxes, sect.
But on the eighth day he appointed a feast for the people, and commanded them to offer sacrifice according to their ability.
The rewards proposed by the Roman laws to informers was sometimes an eighth part as Spanheim assures us, from the criminal's goods, as here, and sometimes a fourth part.
Now the law forbids us to sacrifice any animal at the same time with its dam; and, in other cases, not till the eighth day after its birth.
The Forty-Eighth Pennsylvania were assigned to Lexington, to do provost duty, and were left behind.
Just before dark passed the "Relay Station," where the Massachusetts Eighth were encamped in 1861.
Our brigade comprised the Second Maryland, the Ninth New Hampshire, the Seventh and Twelfth Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Forty-Eighth Pennsylvania regiments, and were under the command of Gen.
On the eighthnight they would continue to advance by sap in zigzag, and arm the demi-parallel with howitzers and mortars, to commence their fire at daybreak at the same time as the counter-batteries.
It was the eighth day of the investment, which appeared now to be complete (May 22nd).
The number of Mormons disqualified from voting for practicing polygamy may have been one-eighth of the whole population, but that includes every man, woman, and child, Gentiles and all.
Han Yü of the eighth and ninth centuries was one of China's most brilliant statesmen and writers, and rose rapidly to the highest offices of State.
By the eighth century, however, all trace of this system had disappeared.
The United States Geological Survey shows one eighth of the total coal area of the nation to be in this region; it supplies nearly one quarter of all the country's bituminous coal.
An electro-magnet mounted on a carriage actuated by the same clock-work moves alongside the cylinder, in a direction parallel with its axis, at the rate of about an eighth of an inch in a minute.
Horizontally across the back of this mirror is secured a small permanent magnet, in length about the diameter of the mirror or about one-eighth to one-quarter of an inch.
On the eighth day out we are again able to be about.
It was the eighth of May, the seventeenth day after we left Hamburg.
See also his resolutions on the defects of the federal government, intended to be offered in Congress in 1783, and especially the eighth resolution.
On the eighth article we observe, that, as frequent settlements of the quotas for supplies and aids to be furnished by the several States in support of the general treasury will be requisite, so they ought to be secured.
Although there are some indications of increased industrial activity in recent years, the population of Dinant is not one-eighth of what it was at the time of the Burgundians.
Stops, each occupying one-eighth of the width, and with centres situated at the points of trisection, answer well the required purpose.
When parallel rays fall directly upon a spherical mirror the longitudinal aberration is only about one-eighth as great as for the most favourably shaped single lens of equal focal length and aperture.
Ward in the English Men of Letters Series (1878), that by Sir Leslie Stephen in the Dictionary of National Biography, and that by Professor Minto in the eighth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Before the eighth picture appeared Seymour had blown his brains out.
Local pain, dorsal pain, generally to the left of the eighth or ninth dorsal spinous process, and haematernesis and melaena, are symptomatic of it.
Nearly the whole of the rarities in that particular division, set forth in the second, fourth, sixth and eighth parts of the catalogue, fell to Mr Miller; and of many no duplicates have since occurred.
On theeighth day of June the company set out from Montreal.
On the eighth day the sword was tempered and he brought it to Mimer.
It appears from Henderson's account that people living in the neighborhood of Skaptar Joekul were greatly alarmed by repeated earthquakes that were felt at different times from the first to the eighth of June, 1783.
It was equal to one-eighth of a Roman mile, or 625 Roman feet.
During later years, however, aneighth planet was discovered and named Neptune.
On the morning of the eighth a prodigious cloud of dense smoke darkened the air, and the surrounding land soon became covered with ashes, pumice, and brimstone.
Thus the interests of the church were by no means neglected, and I think my readers will excuse me for inserting the following lines from the minutes of the eighth annual council of the Swedish Augustana Synod, held in Berlin, Ill.
A captain on the General Staff, then Major, so up through the grades of the Chief of Staff of the Eighth Army Corps to the Commander of the Fourth Army Corps to a General of Infantry, which high office he held until 1911.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eighth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
